That’s why I decided to make this ranking with the best IPTV applications for Android.

Before going into the ranking I wanted to explain to you who was a beginner what is IPTV and what are the IPTV lists in the m3u file format.

WHAT IS IPTV AND WHAT ARE THE IPTV LISTS IN THE M3U FILE FORMAT

Before the internet arrived, the television signals were transmitted in the ether, by cable and by satellite. Each of these methods has its pros and cons, but the fact remains that with the diffusion of the network the television and film industry has immediately sniffed the deal, trying to exploit this means of communication to convey the video content.

Thus IPTV was born, which in the coming years could even become the favorite channel of vision, given the uncontrolled ascent that it is going through.

IPTV stands for Internet Protocol Television, a broadcast standard that uses the network to send video streams. There are two broad categories of IPTV: those that broadcast live content and those that rely on video on demand.

Examples of the former can be live channels broadcast by RAI or SKY, while the latter include services such as Netflix, Mediaset Infinity or Sky On Demand.

This premise is a must to make it clear that IPTV is not born as a tool in the hands of the video pirates, but it is actually perfectly legal and is used every day by millions of Italians.

BUT WHAT ARE THE IPTV M3U LISTS?

The iptv m3u lists are not any other files with the extension m3u with the links that show the address of the tv channel. And it is thanks to these more or less stable lists that you can watch TV on your phone by including them in the applications that I will list, making a ranking starting from the best.

DISCLAIMER: This article and the Androidsecrets.org site do not promote piracy or the use of illegal systems for watching TV. The use of IPTV for viewing unauthorized programs is not permitted by law and infringes copyright.

THE RANKING OF THE BEST IPTV APPLICATIONS

1° LAZY IPTV

– m3u-playlist support (in open-view or v zip/gz), feature to add playlists from device file-system, from internet or clipboard; – can play http and udp streams, and links from vk-video/youtube; – internet radio playback via the built-in audio-player; – support several udp-proxys, that can be switched directly with working playlist; – support auto-update playlist, and using a cached version if not available; – customizable main-screen in title-style view, playlists and most watched channels can be placed there, and a base functions of application with titles sorting; – favourites, with support nested folders, grouping same channels in different playlists; – not specified can be linked with template for receiving information from tv-guide; – export playlists and favourites in many file formats; – backup/restore application settings (playlists, favourites, history, settings); – reminder for broadcats from tv-guide; – hystory of watched channels; – support several EPG (in xmltv-format, in open-view or archived zip/gz), that can be switched between EPG when working with playlist; – The ability to download EPG from the device; – Presets of EPG Sources. Are currently available EPG sources: 3 exUssr, 2 Italy, 1 UK (World), 1 Espany, 1 Germany; – customizable playlists views: list (maximum functionality), icons or titles, for each playlist; – customizable channel search in all playlists; – customizable case-insensitive search of TV-shows in the EPG; – different color-themes; – parental control;

The first is that of famous self-updating infogw, it works to perfect today. You can download it or insert in your client the following url of the m3u list: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=8GpCCkhf

The second is the list of PandaSat famous for working abroad. You can download it or insert in your client the following url of the m3u list: http://www.pandasat.info/iptv/kodi The third is one of the QDR Forum that you find at the following link: https://pastebin.com/raw/ sG5cusFp/.m3u

3° IPTV ✔ M3U and XSPF playlists support ✔ Playlists history ✔ Playing multicast streams with UDP proxy (proxy need to be installed in your LAN) ✔ Grid, list or tile view of TV channels ✔ EPG support in XMLTV and JTV formats

Please note that this app doesn’t contain any built-in channels. You need to have playlist with TV channels in order to use this app.

For multicast streams it’s recommended to use UDP proxy: * for Windows: download and install UDP-to-HTTP proxy from http://borpas.info/download/UdpProxy.exe or check the corresponding option while installing IP-TV Player http://borpas.info/iptvplayer * for Linux: install udpxy (http://udpxy.com/index-en.html, http://sourceforge.net/projects/udpxy/) * the best solution would be installing udpxy on your WLAN router, this can be done for DD-WRT (http://www.dd-wrt.com) and OpenWrt (https://openwrt.org) firmware * some WLAN routers have built-in udpxy in manufacturer’s firmware

4° GSE SMART IPTV

Support : CHROMECAST Support : XTREAM-CODES API API support automatic live and VOD playlist including EPG and movie info. Support : AUTOMATIC LIVE STREAM RECONNECTION Support : EPG XMLTV FORMAT (local and remote file support ,xml , zip , gz formats) Support : Parental control Support : Copy and paste M3U contents Support : Dynamic language switching (31 LANGUAGE) Support : Multiple theme Support : built-in player support all popular formats including RTMP tokens